Asymmetric quasimedians: Remarks on an anomaly

DOI10.1016/S0167-7152(96)00082-XzbMATH Open1030.62507OpenAlexW2020405839MaRDI QIDQ1359797FDOQ1359797

Govind S. Mudholkar, Alan D. Hutson

Publication date: 12 February 2004

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00082-x

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionsbias-variance tradeoff

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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